ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,661, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"System for automatic object mask and hotspot tracking" was invented by Lu Zhang (Dalian, China), Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.) and Radomir Mech (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide editing operations in a smart editing system that may generate a focal point within a mask of an object for each frame of a video segment and perform editing effects on the frames of the video segment to quickly provide users with natural video editing effects. An eye-gaze network may produce a hotspot map of p...